Beginner Acoustic Jam Track 15

Welcome to the first Jam Track lesson of Level 8. We cover a few different things in this one:

• Compound Time strumming pattern and progression - this is in 12/8

• Slash chords featured in the progression

• A Key change in this piece of music

• Therefore, 2 distinct sections we can describe as Section A and Section B

Strumming options

• D DUDU x 4 per chord

• First finger strumming with the above pattern

• Advanced option: pick the root note on the first Down (D) of the strumming pattern

Section A

C | C/B | Am7 | Fmaj7 (optional picked run down)

C | C/B | Am7 | Fmaj7

C | C/B | Am7 | Fmaj7

C | C/B | Am7 | C

Then, Section B

G | G/F# | Em7 | Cadd9

G | G/F# | Em7 | Cadd9

G | G/F# | Em7 | Cadd9

C | C/B | Am7 | D7

Key change song examples

• The Beatles - I Wanna Hold Your Hand

• Fleetwood Mac - Landslide

12/8 songs

• Lover - Taylor Swift

• Tennessee Whiskey - Chris Stapleton